05-20-2017, 10:53 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-20-2017, 02:51 PM by Nathan Ross.)
(05-20-2017, 10:42 AM)markhebb Wrote: other versions of Soz. Story place the temple incident at Antioch....much more likely...
I would say so.
Going back to [Philostorgius: Chronicon Paschale: Theophanes] - I would guess that the Cornuti were still in existence at the time Philostorgius was writing (early 5th century - CIL 06, 32963 has them in Rome c.AD408), and quite a famous military unit. But by the time of the Chronicon they would have been ancient history, which is perhaps why the compiler tries to explain Valentinian's command (confusingly) as a 'tagma in the numerus known as Cornuti'. Theophanes, apparently, just copied the phrase from the Chronicon.
Nathan Ross
